Una donna allontanata dal volo Regno Unito-Italia a causa di un figlio malato ha interrotto il sussidio
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/31/woman-flight-italy-did-not-board-child-benefits-stopped
di F0urLeafCl0ver
Una donna allontanata dal volo Regno Unito-Italia a causa di un figlio malato ha interrotto il sussidio
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/31/woman-flight-italy-did-not-board-child-benefits-stopped
di F0urLeafCl0ver
5 commenti
Yes, this is how the system works, even if you don’t actually board the flight it registers it as you (could have) taken it.
Probably not worth fixing it as this very rarely happens. The solution is to just not assume it’s 100% correct.
How did they know where to send the letter if they assumed she’d emigrated?
Border data is one thing, but ‘private’ airline data…? If they can give that away freely, who else gets to abuse it?
Anyone on benefits should not be allowed to leave the UK.
If you can go on holiday, you don’t need child benefit.
Go to the seaside instead like your parents and grandparents did.
>HMRC’s website said they estimated that they could save between £10m and £30m a year by stopping fraud by those out of the country for more than eight weeks.
So they’ve embarked on a massive witch hunt and disrupted the lives of thousands of families in order to claw back… [0.01%](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2023-to-2024-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2024#total-estimates-of-fraud-and-error-across-all-benefit-expenditure) of the estimated total benefits spend lost to fraud?
“Big number syndrome” strikes again. It’s so easy to bamboozle people by throwing a million (or even a billion) into a press release and pretending that you’re accomplishing something worthwhile, but the savings are absolutely nothing on a national economic scale, and have real human costs attached that are never given any weight.